Muncie firefighters battled a blaze early Wednesday Sept. 16th 2009 at the Dollar General Store in White River Plaza. No one was hurt in the fire but a city police officer was taken to BMH after being hit by a car while the officer was directing traffic with non-life-threatening injuries.
One of our Laid-Off Firefighters will be running in the Bank of America Chicago Marathon on Oct 11th 2009 and he is looking for sponsors. If you are able to help in any way please visit his website at www.firstgiving.com/jbrown09
IF YOU ARE A PUBLIC SAFTEY SUPPORTER PLEASE VIEW THIS!!!!!
Click here to see that supporters of the LOIT came out in masses Monday evening July 6th 2009. The C.D.C.P.T.R. Does not represent the public! They are self appointed people! Stop listening to the Tax Repeal Group and start listening to the public that got you elected!
Here is a video about Firefighter cuts across the country.
32 FIREFIGHTERS LAID OFF JUNE 21 2009. MAYORS ONLY ANSWER TO ANYTHING IS LAY OFFS!!!! LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD BY STANDING UP AND SAYING THAT THE CDCPTR IS NOT YOUR VOICE!
STATION 1 CLOSED BY ORDER OF THE MAYOR!!!!
Click here if you want to see a sad story about a Mayor who cut Firefighers.
The following graph is a breakdown of where your property tax dollars go. The City of Muncie as a whole receives 28.24%. In other words, for every tax dollar paid, 28.24 cents is distributed to the City of Muncie.
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This next graph further breaks down the portion of the City Budget generated from property taxes. Keep in mind this graph only represents 28.24% of your entire property tax. Muncie Fire Department only receives 25.5% of that 28.24%. When broken down based on property tax as a whole, the Muncie Fire Department only receives 7.185 cents per dollar paid. Now ask yourself one question: Is your family's safety worth 7.185 cents of every property tax dollar paid?
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STATION 4 CLOSED 6/3/09 PER MAYOR McSHURLEY
On 6/20/09 40 of the 110 Firefighters will be laid off PER MAYOR McSHURLEY
If you think that laying off 1/3rd of the MFD personnel is the right thing to do then please click HERE and watch this video. We think it might change your mind.
Dear Mayor & City Manager,
Odds are at this point, as hard as we have tried, you still don't seem to understand the need for our department, YOUR fire department, to be well prepared and fully able to respond quickly when our citizens call 9-1-1 for a fire. Mrs. Mayor, this has nothing to do with how many fires we have----it has everything to do with every fire we have.
Actually, at this point, Mrs. Mayor and Manager, you are probably tired of hearing our reasons why THE FIRE DEPARTMENT must not be cut.
Mayor...in these economic hardships, our community needs a fully funded, staffed and trained FD more than ever!
So Mrs. Mayor and City Manager, the old saying "a picture is worth a thousand words" is our next attempt to help you understand. Understand that if our community does not have an adequately trained fire department with the right number of available firefighters and an ability to arrive within minutes of a reported fire, what is worth having in the community? If we cannot protect those who elected us, why are we here?
Sure, a fire might not happen every minute, but when we do have one, please understand how real it can be. The video provided above shows you that very, very dramatically. It is very real as far as happening in our own community. And when it does, because it will, the question will be: did we have the available firefighters, the training, open firehouses and response times to assure that those citizens have a chance?
Please take a moment and watch and listen to the video. There is every reason to believe the fire in this video can and will eventually happen in any community in the USA. The difference is, you as Mayor, you as City Manager and we as the firefighters only have ONE community to be concerned about: OURS.
The FD is not very different than a good insurance policy, it is critical that we know up front what we will have covered by insurance....instead of waiting and hoping we never have a problem.
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